Mass balance of polar ice sheets.
Recent advances in the determination of the mass balance of polar ice sheets show that the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass by near-coastal thinning, and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with thickening in the west and thinning in the north, is probably thinning overall. The mass imbalance of th...
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ftcdlib:qt8qp1n27c 2023-05-15T13:23:54+02:00 Mass balance of polar ice sheets. Rignot, E Thomas, RH 1502 - 1506 2002-08-30 application/pdf http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8qp1n27c english eng eScholarship, University of California qt8qp1n27c http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8qp1n27c Attribution (CC BY): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Rignot, E; & Thomas, RH. (2002). Mass balance of polar ice sheets. Science, 297(5586), 1502 - 1506. doi:10.1126/science.1073888. UC Irvine: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8qp1n27c article 2002 ftcdlib https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1073888 2017-07-07T22:50:58Z Recent advances in the determination of the mass balance of polar ice sheets show that the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass by near-coastal thinning, and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with thickening in the west and thinning in the north, is probably thinning overall. The mass imbalance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is likely to be small, but even its sign cannot yet be determined. Large sectors of ice in southeast Greenland, the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica, and the Antarctic Peninsula are changing quite rapidly as a result of processes not yet understood. Article in Journal/Newspaper Amundsen Sea Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Greenland Ice Sheet West Antarctica University of California: eScholarship Amundsen Sea Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula East Antarctic Ice Sheet Greenland The Antarctic West Antarctic Ice Sheet West Antarctica Science 297 5586 1502 1506 |
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Recent advances in the determination of the mass balance of polar ice sheets show that the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass by near-coastal thinning, and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with thickening in the west and thinning in the north, is probably thinning overall. The mass imbalance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is likely to be small, but even its sign cannot yet be determined. Large sectors of ice in southeast Greenland, the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica, and the Antarctic Peninsula are changing quite rapidly as a result of processes not yet understood. |
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